Service Date: December 6, 2019
Obituaries » Juanita Delores Benjamin
Juanita Delores Benjamin was born on July 20, 1948 in Jackson, Tennessee, to the Reverend James Ezekiel Robinson and Dr. Vivian Ureaka Hawkins. She grew up in a Christian home and accepted Christ at an early age. She was one of two children.
At the time of her birth, Reverend J. E. Robinson pastored a church and Dr. Robinson served as President of the Jackson-Memphis Annual Conference Missionary Society of the C.M.E. Church. She was born into the civil rights struggle and her father, Reverend J.E. Robinson, was jailed with Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. in Birmingham, Alabama. It was at this time that Dr. King wrote Letter From A Birmingham Jail…..Click here to view Obituary…